Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

[FarmerJamie]

OFG, please permit my small hijack, so glad to hear you are doing better

If any of you central Ohio folks are at the Fair tomorrow, one of my college roommate is preaching at the Rhodes Center at 9 am.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

we are officially the "One Chick Per Day" Chicken Factory!

this is the silliest hatch i've ever seen. we've been getting about one chick a day in the incubator and we have about a dozen chicks down there with Little Baldy! most of the chicks are quite small and i think they are from my salmon fav hen...but another hen, Sienna, had also been sneaking in there so i think i see some of her babies. but the funniest is a chick we are calling Mongo. he's huge and towers over all the rest of them. he hatched in about the middle so he should be THAT much bigger. all of the eggs were pretty small so i'm guessing he couldnt wait to get out.

in other news....

nothing but work work work here the last several days. TBM came down with the same flu-ish thing I had, but he's tougher than i am so he didnt spend a week on the couch. i'm finally almost back to full speed.

i finally relented and went out to work on the Old Man Neighbors stupid branches that he wanted us to cut down this whole summer. the more he nagged the less we were wanting to get out there. mostly the branches are on our side and he wanted them cut "so you can walk under them." but you know how that goes.

"walk under" is kind of a broad term... i mean...... me, the dogs, and hobbits can walk under the cut branches and he'll just have to wait until TBM can do the upper ones. i think he wanted them cut (they are some kind of ugly pine tree) so he could mow under them with his stupid Tractor Of Doom.

well. i got news for him - i'm pretty sure our property line is about 5 feet over on what he thought was his side....and we never would have known unless we cut the branches back and now we can see post to post. and since we have most of that side fenced already (with what we thought was the property line)......so the sad news for him is that he wont be needing to mow on "our" side now under those stupid trees because i'm gonna do a second fenceline... thats right... SD's dream with in a dream.. actually its a "fence within a fence".... a dog moat. i'm in heaven. i'm gonna run these bad boys and my little princess in between the dog moat and let them bark their little heads off. ha!

*shakes fist at Old Man Neighbor, yells "i'm still mad you mowed down my hay old man!*

anyway. thats what i've been working on. hatching chicks one at a time and planning my revenge on a helpless old man.

and i made more laundry soap.

and made cake.

wait. there might be more peeping so i'm gonna see if today's arrival is here.

happy wednesday everyone!

 

[sunsaver]

Yay! A dish best served cold. "tractor of doom"?

 

[savingdogs]

Yes, that is a dream, fence within a fence. You will now have the perfect fence for fostering dogs.

Heh, I just saw a new deal where you can "foster" dogs for servicemen and women while they are deployed, it made me think of you. You commit to a certain time span and they match you to the dog. It is for servicemen and women who cannot make arrangements with their families for their animals, and they could be anything from dog to cat to gerbil to pot bellied pig. I have a friend who is trying it right now, they just matched her up with a dog because she is a dog person like me. Isn't that a cool program?

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

GAH! you're not supposed to be encouraging that!!!?!??!?

*falls over*

hey! wonder if someone has a dairy cow they need me to foster?

ha!

 

[savingdogs]

You always manage to make me laugh....

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

It is for servicemen and women who cannot make arrangements with their families for their animals, and they could be anything from dog to cat to gerbil to pot bellied pig.

No Gerbils!! they wouldn't survive the cat posse!!!

 

[FarmerJamie]

Thanks, OFG, that sickness thing blew up this way over the weekend.

CAKE?

 

[Wifezilla]

A dog moat is totally smart. They tend to wear out a perimeter path anyway. Why not just make it theirs to begin with?

 

[abifae]

DOG MOAT!!! WOOT!!!

Can I foster goats?